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24 Jul 2009, 11:02

sudeep wrote:

According to the teachings of the Buddhist and Hindu religions, attaining nirvana is to enter a state of supreme liberation, leaving behind the desires that perpetuate the cycle of death and rebirth.(A) attaining nirvana is to enter(B) to attain nirvana is entering(C) to attain nirvana is(D) to attain nirvana is to enter(E) attaining nirvana is to be entering

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infinitive form of verb is required- to enter. Parallelism - to enter X is to attain Y

I am not posting the OA and OE, so that people get to discuss more.Anyone can reason the flaws once he knows the OA.

I didn't post it to offend u, it was just to complement your style. As for posting OA, the spoiler intends to do just that. People with doubts would put forward their doubts rather than tailoring their reasoning to fit the OA. Anyways, its good for you to be so considerate, I just liked the idea of adding some fun to the otherwise intellectual discussions

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["leaving" is not logically parallel to "to attain", because it is not being compared to "to enter" and "to attain"and as sudeep said, it is modifying "to attain", so its a participle.

even i thought ..'attaining' and hence A should be correct.But in this context "leaving behind..." is the modifier. It is not a part of the main clause..it is more of a side effect of nirvana ..i.e. we are not told to attain X and leave Y..

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13 Jul 2010, 09:31

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I'll go with A.

Because I dont see a reason why we need "to attain"????IMO: "Attaining" is a participle acting as an adjective. For parallellism across the Being verb, "Attaining nirvana" = noun = "to enter" and is is parallel. What am I missing or misunderstood?

Sudeep et all: Now I'm totally confused what the OA is . The spoilers at the different locations are all giving diff info _________________

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This is parallel to ----> To attain nirvana is to enter a state of supreme liberation

Does that rings?

pdarun wrote:

I'll go with A.

Because I dont see a reason why we need "to attain"????IMO: "Attaining" is a participle acting as an adjective. For parallellism across the Being verb, "Attaining nirvana" = noun = "to enter" and is is parallel. What am I missing or misunderstood?

Sudeep et all: Now I'm totally confused what the OA is . The spoilers at the different locations are all giving diff info

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13 Jul 2010, 12:27

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The verbal (present participle) "leaving" here is used as a "verb" modifier, modifying the prior clause. Don't try to force a parallism here with the prior main verb (is) and verbals (to attain and to enter).
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